Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts57. Notice of application
(1) Where an application for a mineral lease is lodged -
(a) within 14 days after lodgement or the further time allowed in writing by the mining registrar, the applicant must serve written notice of the making of the application on the persons specified in the list referred to in section 55(j); and
(b) if Part XIA or XIB applies - the relevant registered native title claimants, registered native title bodies corporate and representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies are to be served with notice of the application in accordance with that Part.
(2) In addition to subsection (1), the mining registrar may, by written notice, require an applicant for a mineral lease to serve written notice of the making of the application on such persons, and within such time, as the mining registrar thinks fit and specifies in the notice.
(3) Within 14 days, or such further time as the mining registrar allows, after the notice referred to in subsection (1) or (2) is served, the applicant for the mineral lease shall provide to the mining registrar such evidence of the notice having been served and the method by which the service was effected as the mining registrar may require.